Governing Faction: Terran Protectorate

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This ice giant is encircled by two sets of thin, dark-coloured rings. It is theorised that the pressure and temperature within Uranus's mantle has resulted in an ocean of liquid diamond, and rainfalls of solid diamonds are therefore a regular occurrence. However, all attempts to pierce the planet's atmosphere to verify this theory have proven both fruitless. The space surrounding Uranus has some potential despite its remote location, far from the Sol system's core, but that potential remains unfulfilled, so it is home only to those who do not have better alternatives available to themConsidered to be too remote to be useful for truly profitable mining operations, the Oort Cloud has been all but abandoned by the Terran High Command. Its only relevance now is in a military context. During the Jump Gate shutdown, the Protectorate conducted a number of targeted operations to systematically wipe out the remnants of the Beryll; the last holdovers of a renegade criminal group once residing in the cloud, which had, until then, managed to remain largely under the Terrans' radar.

Although the Terran Protectorate has displayed little inclination to integrate the Oort Cloud into their economic supply chain, they have established a military infrastructure here and regularly patrol this remote area. A fundamentally dull assignment, being "promoted" to the Oort Cloud is likely to stop any officer's career ambitions dead in its tracks.

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• Pluto

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The most remote mineral resource region in Sol it is often depleted through excessive usage by the Terran Protectorate, particularly of silicon.